Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

misskool

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have no house to play with

Come and play with mine. I'm certainly not doing anything with it. A door was unhung for painting 6 months ago and is still on the landing. The bedroom was supposed to be measured for carpets before christmas 2010. we might have something by christmas 2011....

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have no house to play with

white walls...you'd be finished by now meanwhile NDG and michaels have the best deal I think, because its being one an then finished. misskool with her one door, lydiaj, running up and down her carpets to wear them out, davesnave out doing his polytunnels and I all have to be upbeat about teeny tiny unimportant choices, because the things we need to do will take forever

PasturesNew

Yes. No house = win. I get to laze around and surf the Internet

neverdespairgirl

GDB2222 wrote: »

Is that simply in tribute to the origins of the building?

Yes. And in tribute to OH, who spent long, sweaty hours in a gas mask with a blowtorch, getting the paint off.

neverdespairgirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

It will look fabulous. I hope you'll be putting some pics up (over on the other site maybe) when it's been done. I must say, that would be too much slate for me - not just because it's cold, but because in my family it would also be an issue that things break when they fall on it, and it's slippery when people spill things. But perhaps such occurrences aren't so common in your household.

the slate areas aren't huge - the entrance hall, kitchen, and bathrooms. Everything else will be wood.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

the slate areas aren't huge - the entrance hall, kitchen, and bathrooms. Everything else will be wood.

Cheap Chinese slate? Or Welsh, or Delabole, or what?

silvercar

Hmm, would that make all the difference to whether you are too close to the boundary?

An option that my old neighbour took, was to have the ground floor really near the boundary and the upstairs taken in a bit to comply with the regulations.

vivatifosi

lemonjelly wrote: »

http://www.theelectric.co.uk/programme.php?film=290

For Viva & other F1 affecionadoes (sp?) in case you were not aware...

I adored him as a driver. As a kid I sat on haybales on Philip Island watching racing, then when I came back to the UK, we'd watch yet more racing. I have several racers (lower formulas) in my family and grew up with an Uncle who was a mechanic at McLaren. I thought Ronnie Petersen was special, then he died. Then I adored Gilles Villeneuve, he died. The last great racing driver who I absolutely loved was Senna, he died. On my birthday. I've made a point of not adoring racing drivers to the same extent anymore, it never ends happily. Plus of course they are all whippersnappers these days.

I can't wait for the Senna film. That and TT3D are 100% on my to see list.

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

At the moment it's Tassie and Melbourne that are really hit. Sydney is mostly ok barring flights to those places.

The possibly bad news is that there is a second ash cloud. The prediction is for it to go to Tassie and VIC again but nobody actually knows where it'll end up. Adelade is looking like it might close. Sydney is still an outside bet only. The most likely thing is that your uncle will be fine.

Many thanks for that Gen. I think he will get to Sydney ok, but its really marginal for his flight home as there are so many delays flying in. Fingers crossed....

vivatifosi

misskool wrote: »

Come and play with mine. I'm certainly not doing anything with it. A door was unhung for painting 6 months ago and is still on the landing. The bedroom was supposed to be measured for carpets before christmas 2010. we might have something by christmas 2011....

That sounds so much like my house! I don't have time to do anything at the moment:(. I've been so busy trying to do stuff like work at the library, run a business, run a charity and keep my job at the library that I've run out of hours in the day. I was horrified when I saw what I unpacked that I'd brought at Tescos. I've stocked up on Pot Noodles, processed cheese triangles and crispbreads, digestive biscuits and teabags, and breakfast cereals because I don't have time to cook anything at the moment. I had to go out at lunchtime just to buy a bag of fruit, such are my withdrawal symptoms for something decent. Thank goodness things get back to normally in a week or so, I'll be a spotty bloated wreck by then. But looking forward to cooking a real dinner.